1. Ah Fai was a chief animator for McDull’s animated features. He’s super cool. Ultimate senpai.
2. Previous post on breakdowns right here
Some thoughts on acceleration and force
I presented this in the order of how I slowly understood the trick of delivering force - first an abstract concept of impact taught by Ah Fai, then a more complicated discovery on the acceleration pattern, last back to a more abstract concept of breakdowns.
Like I’ve previously stressed, 2D animation is everything but one single approach. There’s no one rule that rules them all, but interchangeable ideas with math, or physics, or music, etc. There’s no “perfect” animation either, but what is perceived as organic and dynamic. E.g., using the Fibonacci numbers to animate didn’t bring me a perfect animation! On the other hand, a tiny change in the pattern could already make the feeling of force so much more powerful.
Not so much of a tutorial than a personal experience. I hope you find this interesting hahaha
This resistance jolt trick is something worth telling the world about.
Oct. 30, 1961: At Cape Canaveral, a Saturn rocket — an early iteration of the rockets that would take astronauts to the moon — headed for the skies, part of “a great expansion of the area of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Missile Test Center,” The Times reported, which was sure to change things for the “fisherman and those who sought a secluded spot on the ocean away from noise and confusion” who had traditionally occupied the area. Photo: George Tames/The New York Times
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